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I haven't been paying the best attention to what you have and haven't done to the Blazer. I know you put a new rear end in it and did some other mechanical and cosmetic work. But I remember you saying the tailgate had more or less rotted off at the hinges; did you get around to doing anything about that yet?

Why would you sell your Silverado? That truck is a very valuable tool for anything you'd be looking to accomplish. Why not sell everything BUT that truck? I'm sure that having the payment sucks, but selling the other stuff would net enough cash to be able to refinance it down to next to nothing (assuming the payment is the reason you want to sell it)

Sorry to hear you're going through a rough spot right now; hopefully things pick up in the winter for you in terms of plowing, etc. Also, are you still toying with the idea of moving to New Hampshire?

That Camaro is a turdwagon. If you really want it, offer to take it off his hands for whatever a junkyard would pay (about $100 at the moment) and cobb it back together with the cheapest parts you can find. It's a pile now and will NEVER be a nice car, but could be a fun burnout machine/around town rat with a couple of bucks and some elbow grease.

Great site! Guy has a lot of neat stuff for sale. I'd kill to have the 4WD 1942 Chevrolet COE. That's about as badass as it gets!

Hopefully they send his retarded parents a bill for all of the resources they wasted.

I hear ya. I have the same problem in skimming craigslist for old toys. Every knucklehead that has a worthless rusty 80's Tonka dump truck that's been under their back porch since new is in between the occasional piece worth looking into. It would be nice if there was a way to choose a cutoff year for what you're looking for.

Umm, dude, you CAN search multiple regions of craigslist at once: http://www.searchtempest.com/ Put in whatever you want, choose a mile range, and see what comes up.

My father's friend, before he passed away, owned a farm that produced maple syrup. He used to give it to us by the gallon, grade A amber, so that's pretty much all we ate when I was growing up. Other than that, I've only ever had Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth, and then whatever else has been on the table when I've gone out for breakfast. But I, too, feel the same way about high fructose corn syrup and make it a point to eat as little as possible. It's fall in New England; I need to hit a local farm and pick up some of the real stuff, and maybe try some grade B amber since I've never had it before.

Well, I live in a complex so there are no garages here to speak of; guess I'll have to do the neighborhood I used to live in when I still lived with my folks. Best garage/driveway: my parents. In the driveway are dad's 2000 Chevrolet Silverado and mom's 2007 Nissan Altima. In the garage are dad's 1937 Packard Super Eight model 1500 touring sedan (restored) and 1940 Packard model 1801A panel delivery (work in progress). Worst garage/driveway: the people directly across the street. The totalled 1991 Honda Accord sedan that sat in their driveway for four years has been recently replaced with an unregistered non-running 1993 Acura Legend sedan on four flats, covered in the $h! that falls out of the tree it's under. Next to that is a 1993 Honda Civic hatch, also unregistered, also not running, also on four flats, also covered in tree $h!. Then there's the 2000 Toyota Tundra that's hit everything but the lottery, the 2003 Acura TSX sedan that's covered in faded, peeling Boston Celtics stickers from when the car was new, and the 2007 Honda Civic sedan that their fat retarded son roasts a clutch in every few months. All this in a driveway belonging to a house whose yard is never mowed, hasn't been painted in 15 years, has a front porch that's literally rotting off the front of the house, a crumbling chimney that birds nest in, and window coverings ranging from broken venetian blinds and tattered curtains to an oversized Paula Abdul poster. Every time I go back to visit my folks, it makes me sad to see that it hasn't burned down with everybody inside yet.

XLR/XLR-V?

Also, I just skimmed the cars.gov official list and it appears as though there are numerous errors in the list, and some of the types of vehicles may be listed twice. For example, they have the 1991 V1500 (full-size) Blazer in two different places on the list, once at 89 units and once at 12 units. So did they take 89, or 12, or 89 + 12 which equals 101? Things like that make me think (hope) that some vehicles in question may have been miscounted or misrepresented. After all, this IS the government we're talking about.

Was it verified that every single one of these vehicles were destroyed? There's a loophole in the C4C program that allows for a person to buy a traded in vehicle if they offer more than the government pays before the claim is submitted. At least one GMC Syclone was documented to have been saved this way, and I'd be willing to bet that if somebody saw a Bentley, Aston Martin, 8-series BMW, or Buick GNX pass through the line that at least SOME of them were bought by dealership employees in the know.

Suburban/Tahoe all the way

It looks like they're doing it!

Happy Birthday!

Yeahhhhhhhhh..... soooooooo I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday..... that'd be greaaaaaat.

Probably the only GM car I REALLY want that I won't have owned when I die is a sixteen cylinder Cadillac. A friend of my father's sold his 1938 V16 a few years ago, and I regret never getting a ride in it, which would have been a good consolation prize. Depending on prices, a 1957-1958 Eldorado Brougham might be out of the question at some point too if I wait a long time to look for one. But other than that, everything else I'm interested in is well within reach.

Best article I've read in a long, long time. Thanks for sharing!

http://www.examiner.com/x-10974-Kansas-Cit...ontiac-Catalina Here's one less '73 Catalina we'll be able to buy, but good for the old man, I guess.

In Manchester, NH there is a famous little diner called the Red Arrow that has some of the best food around for breakfast lunch and dinner. I usually go for breakfast food since they serve it 24 hours a day. Ginormous fluffy pancakes, super thick bacon, giant glasses of ice cold milk, you name it. All excellent. About a year ago, the Red Arrow bought a small diner in my town and redid it as the second Red Arrow diner. The same people own and operate it, and in some cases, even the same people work there. This excited me because now I'd be able to get the same amazing food right around the corner, instead of driving 40 minutes for it. Or at least I thought. So one morning my girlfriend and I decide to go in for breakfast. I got pancakes that were small and the batter had to have been a month old with the way they crumbled, paper-thin microwave bacon like the garbage you'd get on a breakfast sandwich from McDonald's, and $h!ty watered-down apple juice. I left zero for a tip, filled out one of the survey cards with exactly what I thought, and even e-mailed the owners of the ORIGINAL Red Arrow telling them not to piss away their excellent reputation they've spent the past 85 years building by putting their good name on such low-grade dog food. I still eat at the real Red Arrow frequently, but it wouldn't bother me a bit if number two burned to the ground.

Any Simplex or Duesenberg; I'm not picky.

If you like it, buy two; you'll need one for parts.

Instead we got a two-door Lumina. What a turdwagon.

Two plates are issued, you'll need a front for state inspection, but you can leave it off the other 364 days a year and nobody will say boo about it.